Be Like Reagan

n Iran, Obama should talk about democracy and support the demonstrators—but give the regime a chance to negotiate.

Iran is the new Eastern Europe during the last phase of the Cold War. Like Poland during the heady days of Solidarity in the early 1980s, the protestors in the streets of Iranian cities are not crazed ethnics demonstrating on behalf of some illiberal blood-and-soil nationalism, but enlightened, technologically savvy multitudes crying out for universal values of democracy and human rights. As such, they have captured the imagination of liberal intellectuals in the West.

By Robert D. Kaplan

Be Like Reagan - The Atlantic
(January 16, 2010)

Labels: Foreign Policy, Iran

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